‘Mommy, there’s a man in my room’

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When your children suddenly come up with details they know nothing about, you have to admit: not everything children say can be dismissed as ‘a vivid fantasy’.

Sandra (34), mother of daughter Jara (3):

“I have long brushed aside the story of the man in my daughter Jara’s room as an imagination. A vivid fantasy indeed, because in the beginning she always cried hard and became upset. I comforted her, but didn’t take the spiritual part very seriously.

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The brother who shouldn’t be there

Until she said something about her brother. I had a miscarriage when she didn’t even know I was pregnant. Two days later she said: ‘Look Mom, there’s my brother by the closet, you know him too, don’t you?’

“Look mom, there’s my brother by the closet, you know him too, don’t you?”

Since then I believe her completely and I try to support her even more. I sometimes find that difficult, since it’s still a far-from-my-bed show. I mainly mention that I don’t see him, but that she can and can talk to him if she wants to. That’s how I taught her to send him away if she doesn’t like him being there. By the way, she herself is now very laconic about it, so that’s nice.”

This article can be found in Kek Mama 01-2022.

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